Black is an overacted ripoff of The Miracle Worker with a Bollywood bent. As such, it's worth a watch because - come on - when are you ever going to have that sort of a wonky mix? Better still, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali opts to mix pretentious English lines freely amid the Hindi. It's a wondrously strange brew and this reviewer had visions of Lilies dancing his head, almost as if Bhansali had initially conceived his film as a theatre piece. Frankly, the ripoff aside, the 'look' of this film is stunning. Amid the weirdness Amitabh Bachchan does a fine - if Malkovichian - job as 'Miracle Worker' Debraj Sahai to Helen Keller's Indian doppelganger Michelle McNally (Rani Mukherjee). Black won a slew of Awards of the International Indian Film Academy back in 2006 and is such a bizarre mix of styles and so overwrought it's well worth renting on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
My rating 7 out of 10.
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